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Compactification on the Ω-background and the AGT correspondence

Junya Yagi (Hamburg U.).

28.06.2012 at 16:15

It has been argued that the AGT correspondence originates from two ways to compactify the 6d (2,0) theory. One is compactification on a punctured Riemann surface, which produces 4d N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory. The other is compactification on the Ω-background. I will discuss how the latter can produce Liouville theory and its generalizations. The basic strategy is to consider another kind of compactification using two cigar-like manifolds.

Arnold Sommerfeld Center
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